as in myopic
able to see near things more clearly than distant ones
I am a little nearsighted and need to wear glasses to drive
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Recent Examples of nearsighted
The display's focus can also be manually adjusted to accommodate nearsighted users.
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Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024
With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision.
—Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision.
—Benjamin Botsford, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
Babies are born nearsighted, able to see only about 10 to 12 inches away.
—Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
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Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024
With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision.
—Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision.
—Benjamin Botsford, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
Babies are born nearsighted, able to see only about 10 to 12 inches away.
—Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nearsighted
Adjective
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Just like on Succession, the fragile egos, myopic intelligence, and delusional self-righteousness of these uber-wealthy nuts go haywire pretty quickly.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
22 Apr. 2025
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At its worst, her rhetoric is bigoted and myopic, perpetuating antiblack stereotypes in her psychosexual analysis of racial hierarchy in the United States.—
Audrey Wollen,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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However, taking isolated and odious episodes like this and using them as a pretext to impose punitive legislative and regulatory punishments on the rest of the private-investment community is shortsighted and harmful to people’s health.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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In my view, these cuts are dangerous and shortsighted.—
Corky Siemaszko,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Nearsighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nearsighted. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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